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baking

Check out the intelligent new progressive lightmapper and dynamic navigation mesh system.

Monday, April 3rd, 2017

Update to texture-painting tool adds brush opacity, LUT-based colour management, option to bake 8K textures.

Wednesday, February 22nd, 2017

Discover production techniques for modeling and baking normal maps with Riot Games' Nick Reynolds.

Wednesday, January 18th, 2017

Big update to voxel sculpting and painting package adds 'completely remade' PBR shading system, plus neat new low-poly retopology tools.

Saturday, July 9th, 2016

Hotly tipped biased GPU-based renderer gets new PBR material, support for volumetrics and baking.

Tuesday, July 5th, 2016

Now shipping: Long-awaited update to GPU renderer to add volumetrics, support for deep pixel compositing.

Tuesday, May 24th, 2016

Neat free tool generates AO, cavity, curvature, normal and other maps for use in game engines. Handles dense ZBrush sculpts.

Monday, May 9th, 2016

Update will improve look dev and asset export to UE4 and Unity 5, streamline baking, enhance vertex normal editing.

Tuesday, March 8th, 2016

Updated: Cloud-based platform for turning 3D models into interactive presentations gets VR capabilities, new desktop app.

Monday, December 21st, 2015

Subscriber-only update adds option to import or export weight maps, new baking and LOD functionality.

Friday, December 11th, 2015

Updated, now shipping: Texturing app gets OpenSubdiv support; Arnold, V-Ray, Redshift and UE4 shaders; native Modo integration.

Thursday, December 3rd, 2015

Updated, now shipping: Games texturing toolkit gets powerful 3D painting and map baking options. See the new features in action here.

Monday, November 30th, 2015

Unity 5.2 ships

Game engine adds support for Windows 10, native integration with Visual Studio, plus new lightmap baking and Biped import options.

Friday, September 11th, 2015